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"Texas Sen. John Cornyn said there was simply no time to allow anyone to read the (unconstitutional red-flag gun control) bill, even people voting on it, or to try to understand what was in it. A reporter last night overheard John Cornyn again, the senator from Texas, a Republican, say this and we're quoting, "It's only 80 pages long. How long do you need to read it?" Then John Cornyn appeared in front of cameras to explain the Senate cannot pass this bill soon enough.
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This is grotesque. Under ordinary circumstances, you would just assume, as always, these people live in their own hermetically sealed world. They have no contact with reality. They have no idea how out of step they are. But given the context of this moment, you have to interpret it differently. What you just saw was effectively a speech in support of Joe Biden by a leader in a party whose job it is to offer an alternative to Joe Biden. It's enough to make your head spin.

Just a few hours after Cornyn said that, the Senate voted to move forward with this bill. So, what's in the bill? Well, there's $100 million for the FBI, for the FBI. No attempt to reform the FBI. We're shoveling another $100 million to the FBI, the personal police department of Joe Biden, the people who saved his son from a drug charge.

Then there's nearly a billion in order to bribe the states to "implement and manage" these so-called red flag laws. Now, these laws allow authorities to seize firearms for people who have committed no crimes. That's a violation of due process. It's unconstitutional, but the Republican Party is all for it. The bill also makes it harder for people between the ages of 18 and 21 to buy a gun. They can go fight in Ukraine and Republicans would like them to, but they can't get a gun in this country. Now, the question is, would any of these measures have stopped the mass shootings in Buffalo or Uvalde?

No, this bill is completely unconnected from what happened in Buffalo or Uvalde. This is merely Joe Biden's agenda. Even Kevin McCarthy of California has refused to support it. So here you have Mitch McConnell, the lead Republican in the Senate, partnering with Chuck Schumer, the lead Democrat in the Senate, picking John Cornyn to carry that message and getting it done before anyone can even read the bill and then on the Senate floor, John Cornyn turns to one of the most partisan Democrats in that body, Alex Padilla of California, and says, "Next, we'll do immigration."

Now, he was caught saying this, so Cornyn's office came out today and said, oh, it's just a hilarious joke. Get it? First, we'll take your guns, then we'll send your tax dollars to Zelenskyy in Ukraine, a country you can't find out a map, and then we're going to give amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens living illegally in this country. To John Cornyn, it's all pretty funny. Does anyone who voted for John Cornyn in the state of Texas, the Republicans in Texas agree that it's funny? Or even believe that it was a joke? How about the voters of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's voters?

After meeting in his office with a movie star to discuss the issue – they're pretty informed – Lindsey Graham also voted for gun confiscation last night, not in Ukraine. He voted to send more guns to Ukraine, but you can't have guns here (in America).

So, the priorities they articulate in public are so far from the priorities of Americans that you have to wonder what this is. It's not simply a betrayal of Republican voters. We often call it that. It's much more. It's a declaration of war against Republican voters, in fact, against voters. For the record, here's a complete list of the Republican senators who just voted for gun confiscation.

They would include Senator John Cornyn of Texas, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio, Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia (How do the West Virginians feel?) Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Todd Young of Indiana. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania was absent for the vote, but he came out in support of it.
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Now, many of those senators are from America's most conservative states—Indiana, Utah, Louisiana and West Virginia. What were the numbers in the last election in those states? In fact, every one of those states, except for the state of Maine, went for Donald Trump in 2020. You're seeing the color-coded maps of election results in those states on your screen right now. Some of them are entirely red.

So again, if you care about democracy, you have to ask how many of those voters went to the polls in the last election, hoping above all, to elect leaders who support gun confiscation of law-abiding Americans, red flag laws? Not very many. So, what we're seeing here, to be clear, is a subversion of democracy.
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So, no wonder they want to disarm you. You can't have guns because they no longer trust you and they no longer trust you because they know they've betrayed you. This is how democracy dies, not in darkness, but in plain sight."